St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-22

The ouiet of the past week indicates
fhe closing days of the season. Aside
from the rh0mpSon-NaXey wedding
Ahere was no large social gathering dur
ING the week. The University Juniors
had a Jolly May party at the residence
of Prof. Moore. and the Caledonian club
gave one Of its enjoyable Socials at Cur
tisS hall The coming week Will wit
ness the Clerihew wedding. and prob
any prominence until the lake season
opens.
The days Of picnics are upon us. Dur
inc the past week the "FreshieS" and
..Sub-frtsh of the university INDUCED
i'm the time-hOnUred mStituti0n-the one
at Minnet0nka and the other ut Lake
Harriet. Many Il peeled wrist and
freckled nGSe attest the pleasures of
boating and The heat of the sun. 1t is
astonishing how much torture in the
way of Smburned faces and bliStered
hands your Young c0legian will undergo
if thereby he succeeds i'll making life
pleasant for his best girl. Given a
pretty girl in picnic gown and hat, an
ardent youth OF fresh or sophomore
ideas. i row boat. oars and lake, and
the slightest hint from the maid will
EduSt inc YOUTH ~ UGLY IiOolllNtt HCoI
and ineXperienCc with oars, even at the
cost of days of subsequent agony. The
thing is done at every class picnic, and
bliSterS and peeled n0SeS are explained
afterwards i'll ways as ingenious as APP
parently false.
With the picnic season comes the
sweet girl graduate, and the male grad
uate likewise. though the latter is never
to be mentioned in the same day with
the 5. 2. =. During the next two weeks
college doors will send forth each Il
quota. making an aggregate of thou
sands of educated" young men and
wOmen-very conceited young men and
very ambitious young women. And
newspapers all over the land will in
dulge in editorials, long and short, on
the defects of the collegiate education,
and topics Of a similar ilk. The coun-
try editor, whose proudeSt boast is that
he never went to school but three days
in his life, will devote Il column
or two to showing the WaStefulneSS
of time spent in college, and the
uselessneSs OF the material graduated
from institutions of learning. And the
funny man en- the metropolitan press
will select his perennial witticisms
about the servant girl graduate and that
SOll VI tIiNS. ana HttNlliS carefully Ills
guiSed C?) the ancient chestnut, will
spring it once more upon a defenSeleSS
public. And everybody will 90 to com
mencement and throw flowers at the
frightened young people on the stage.
The state university class of 1887 is
peculiarly constituted, there being
tWenty-SiX gentlemen and only one lady.
A heavy duty dev0lveS upon this fort
innate woman. To her is given the
proud distinction of maintaining the
dignity of her sex, as she has demon
Strated, in a pre-eminent degree, the
mental equality of woman with man.
To the worldly-minded maiden other
causes of congratulation would appear
We're she placed in the lady graduate S
position. She could argue, and with
justice. that by little judicious man.
agement during the past year she could
have had tWenty-SiX lovers Yieing for
the honor of her hand, and she could have
had the proud distinction of rejecting
twenty-siX men. distinction before
which literary and scientific honors pale
their Intellectual fires. She could have
attended operas and plays until even
her woman'S abnormal liking would
have been satisfied. She could have
danced innumerable times with any va
rely Ol partners. Inc JUNIOR mel
might have been tempted to fOrSake, fol
day. the enhancing society of their
classmates, sophomores would have
sought advice from her as from an ora.
Gle, freshmen would have treasured as
sacred thing the recollection of hei
condescending smile and the subs would
have Worshiped, blindly, at the shrine
where intellectually ana feminine
l0velineSS were combined in the noble
lady senior. All of which would have
left but little time for collegiate work
but, oh. what horde of precious 'recol
lecti0nS.
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Besides the lady who is to be the OBJ
served of all observers at the university
commencement on Wednesday. Bennett
seminary will usher its sweet girl grad
yates to the welcoming embrace of the
cruel world wide their graduating
theses, where they will become orna
ments of society for time, and, it is II
be hoped, eventually send daughters o
their own to college halls. The higl
school will soon close its doors on thu
boys and girls of 81. .JudSOn institute
will close for the year, and the thousant
or more undergraduates will forget thei
envy Of the class of 81 in the delight:
OF the long vacation.